Hacker News: barnas2

New comment by barnas2 in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

barnas2 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:01:50 +0000

A company called Taalas is working on something like that. Not Opus4.6 quality, but I'm sure they're targeting larger models. Currently they're using a LLama 8B model. It runs at ~17k tokens per second, and you can test it at https://chatjimmy.ai/.

New comment by barnas2 in "My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack"

barnas2 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:02:05 +0000

Clear procedures are the entire point of incident response plans. You follow them because of the fact that your judgement can be compromised in the moment. They re-triggered the malware payload because they decided to just dive in and handle it on their own in the "fog of war". Which would have been avoided entirely if they'd been following the standard advice to quarantine the machine and contact security so that they can investigate properly, with the developer if necessary.

Your final sentence is completely irrelevant. Blind rule adherence can be an avenue for exploit in certain scenarios, but this wasn't a case of a developer being tricked into following a bad rule. They didn't follow a real and very well justified standard practice.

The takeaway is "wow, we got lucky, we should have security people to loop in for this next time" not your weird life philosophy about how rule followers are a problem.

New comment by barnas2 in "My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack"

barnas2 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:35:09 +0000

As someone who works in security, it's really neat that you were able to discover this with the help of Claude. That being said the "I just opened Cursor again which triggered the malicious package" message is a bit eye opening. Ideally the instant you suspected malware that machine should have been quarantined and your security personnel contacted.

New comment by barnas2 in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

barnas2 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:30:30 +0000

Isn't the entire argument for these based on the fact that people don't have an expectation of privacy in a public place? Not that I'm sure they won't try to make an excuse as to why it's different, but as far as I'm aware, you're allowed to just film in public.

New comment by barnas2 in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

barnas2 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:33:45 +0000

>Poker players have intuitive sense of the statistics of various hand types showing up, for instance, and that can be a useful clue as to which build types are promising.

Maybe in the early rounds, but deck fixing (e.g. Hanged Man, Immolate, Trading Card, DNA, etc) quickly changes that. Especially when pushing for "secret" hands like the 5 of a kind, flush 5, or flush house.

New comment by barnas2 in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

barnas2 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:58:11 +0000

> You could make the argument that Patreon isn't much more than a banking app.

Don't give them any ideas.

New comment by barnas2 in "Show HN: Extracting React apps from Figma Make's undocumented binary format"

barnas2 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:08:08 +0000

I'm curious if you tried binwalk? That's usually my goto for mysterious files.

New comment by barnas2 in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

barnas2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:22:47 +0000

I don't smoke/vape, but I saw some pretty absurd models available recently that really piqued my interest. One had a touchscreen, could run some basic apps, and had wifi/bluetooth support. The other had a d-pad + buttons built in and a few ripoffs of classic games you could play. I bought one of each to start ripping them apart on my work bench and playing with the firmware. Unfortunately I got busy and haven't done much more than look at the internals. They're using some sort of cheap smart watch SoC. It's wild you can get a battery, touchscreen, charging circuit, and a microprocessor for like $12.

New comment by barnas2 in "RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD"

barnas2 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:14:42 +0000

> We can only hope the firmware vendors are on top of their game.

You should go into comedy, this would kill at an open mic!

New comment by barnas2 in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

barnas2 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:21:08 +0000

Manufacturers still may not go for it, due to the potential bad publicity. To go back to the toaster example, if some fancy open source software alternative has a critical issue and causes fires, the news will not report it with nuance. "SmartCo Toaster Fires on the Rise!" will be the headline, not "Niche Modding Community Sets Toasters On Fire, And The Manufacturer Had Nothing To Do With It".

New comment by barnas2 in "Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away"

barnas2 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:52:56 +0000

>On a vaguely related note, driving 3000 kilometers through Europe in an electric car was surprisingly nice.

I did 2 cross country road trips here in the US (~5000mi/8000km total) and had a similar experience. The nav's automatic charger routing did a great job, and we had 0 issues with charging.

New comment by barnas2 in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

barnas2 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:13:21 +0000

Incredible startup idea. While we wait for the self driving tech, maybe we could pay specially trained people to drive these vehicles?

New comment by barnas2 in "Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA"

barnas2 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:22:58 +0000

NYC already tried Snitching as a Service during COVID, and it went terribly. I grew up with a neighbor who would constantly record people and call the cops over every little perceived infraction. Everyone in the neighborhood hated her, including the cops. I do not want to live in a society that encourages those people.

New comment by barnas2 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

barnas2 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:16:57 +0000

I've gotten pretty good results from saying it's someone else's idea and that I'm skeptical. e.g. "A coworker wrote this code, can you evaluate it?"

New comment by barnas2 in "The RAM shortage comes for us all"

barnas2 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:09:16 +0000

They aren't overproducing consumer modules, they're actively cutting production of those. They're producing datacenter/AI specific form factors that won't be compatible with consumer hardware.

New comment by barnas2 in "Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy an estimated $2.5B"

barnas2 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:31:11 +0000

Honda makes an anti-rodent tape that's designed for wrapping wiring. It's loaded with capsaicin so any critter that bites down will quickly decide to stop. It's possible other manufacturers are exploring similar ideas.

New comment by barnas2 in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

barnas2 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:33:11 +0000

I bet this is going to make them a TON of money. A ton of people are using chatgpt to essentially replace google, and treating it like a trusted source. The average user is going to jump at the ability to ask their "trusted" source a question and get a direct link to the thing they need to buy.

New comment by barnas2 in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

barnas2 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:54:30 +0000

> SSD + HAT + PSU + Case + Cooler (+ maybe a uSD)

The only 100% required thing on there is some sort of power supply, and an SD card, and I suspect a lot of people have a spare USB-C cable and brick lying around. A cooler is only recommended if you're going to be putting it under sustained CPU load, and they're like $10 on Amazon.

New comment by barnas2 in "We all dodged a bullet"

barnas2 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:11:07 +0000

Looks like it costs ~$200,000 to get your own TLD. If a bunch of companies started doing the "register every TLD of our brand", I wonder what the breakeven point would be where just registering a TLD is profitable.

New comment by barnas2 in "Clankers Die on Christmas"

barnas2 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:17:24 +0000

I believe there's also some research showing that being nice gets better responses. Given that it's trained on real conversations, and that's how real conversation works, I'm not surprised.